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LOT 1534
Vinca Terracotta Figurine
CENTRAL EUROPEAN, 4TH MILLENNIUM B.C. OR LATER
3 7/8 in. (96 grams total, 97 mm high including stand).
Columnar figure with pinched facial features, stub arms, incised detail to the eyes, chest and legs; mounted on a display stand. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Literature
See discussion in Gimbutas, M., The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe: 7000 to 3500 BC, Berkeley, 1974.
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